District of Frankfurt

This article deals with the district of Frankfurt in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau. For (rural) districts with the same name in the province of Brandenburg, see District Frankfurt (1816–1826) or District Frankfurt (Oder) (1950–1952).

Basic data
Prussian Province	Hessen-Nassau
Administrative district	Wiesbaden
Administrative headquarters	Bockenheim
Inventory period	1886-1910
surface	40.85 km² (1900)
Residents	51,691 (1890) 25,037 (1900)
Population density	613 inhabitants / km² (1900)
Communities	17 (1886) 11 (1910)
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Town hall in Bockenheim, seat of the district council of the district

The district of Frankfurt was a district in the Wiesbaden administrative district of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau , which existed from 1886 to 1910. Its entire area today belongs to the independent city of Frankfurt am Main .

geography

The district bordered, apart from the eponymous city, in the west on the district of Höchst and the Obertaunus district , all of which also belonged to the Wiesbaden administrative district. The neighbor to the east was the district of Hanau in the administrative district of Kassel . In the north, the district bordered the Hessian province of Upper Hesse . Two communities were on the left bank of the Main, southwest and southeast of Frankfurt , the rest on the northern edge of the city.

history

The district of Frankfurt a. M. was established on April 1, 1886 as part of a regional reform in the province of Hessen-Nassau . It was assigned to the Wiesbaden administrative district and was composed of

• the municipalities of Bonames , Hausen , Niederrad , Niederursel (Frankfurt part) , Niederursel (Hessian part) and Oberrad from the urban district of Frankfurt a. M.
• the place Rödelheim and the community Heddernheim from the dissolved Mainkreis and
• the city of Bockenheim and the communities Berkersheim , Eckenheim , Eschersheim , Ginnheim , Praunheim , Preungesheim and Seckbach , which until then the county Hanau in Kassel belonged.

The district council of the district had its seat in the then town hall of Bockenheim, built in 1869.

On March 1, 1899, the two parts of Niederursels were merged into one municipality.

All cities and municipalities in the district were incorporated into Frankfurt in three steps:

• On April 1, 1895 Bockenheim
• On July 1, 1900 Niederrad, Oberrad and Seckbach
• On April 1, 1910 the remaining eleven communities

The circle was dissolved on the latter date.

District administrators

According to Section 7 of the Organization Ordinance of February 22, 1867, the Chief of Police of Frankfurt took over the tasks of the District Administrator

• 1886–1887  August von Hergenhahn
• 1887–1889  Ernst von Köller
• 1889–1904  Wilhelm von Müffling called White
• 1904–1910  Fritz Scherenberg

Communities

The following cities and communities belonged to the district:

local community	Altkreis	Area (ha)	Incorporation
Berkersheim	Hanau	321	April 1, 1910
Bockenheim (City)	Hanau	540	April 1, 1895
Bonames	Frankfurt	335	April 1, 1910
Eckenheim	Hanau	234	April 1, 1910
Eschersheim	Hanau	334	April 1, 1910
Ginnheim	Hanau	270	April 1, 1910
Hausen	Frankfurt	125	April 1, 1910
Heddernheim	Main district	248	April 1, 1910
Niederrad	Frankfurt	289	July 1, 1900
Niederursel 1	Frankfurt	820	April 1, 1910
Upper wheel	Frankfurt	274	July 1, 1900
Praunheim	Hanau	455	April 1, 1910
Preungesheim	Hanau	366	April 1, 1910
Rödelheim (City)	Main district	514	April 1, 1910
Seckbach	Hanau	804	July 1, 1900

¹ Until 1899 Niederursel consisted of two separate communities

Individual evidence

1. ^ Community directory Germany 1900: District Frankfurt
2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Frankfurt. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ District order for the province of Hessen-Nassau 1886 (digitized version)
4. ^ "Niederursel, City of Frankfurt am Main". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
5. ^ Ordinance concerning the organization of the administrative authorities in the former Electorate of Hesse, in the former Duchy of Nassau, in the formerly free city of Frankfurt and in the previously Bavarian and Grand-Ducal Hessian areas. From February 22, 1867 , Collection of Laws for the Royal Prussian States, year 1867 (No. 6563) ( preuß GS) 1867 (No. 19) pp. 273–278
6. ↑ For the announcement in Nassau also printed in the intelligence sheet for Nassau
7. ↑ Landkreis Frankfurt on the website Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874-1945